Home Inspector Raytown MO – Bulldog Professional Inspection Services (816) 564-3081
Raytown MO. began as an $800 treaty way back in 1826.
Back then, the area reminded the founders of the Blue Ridge mountains so much that they named the area Blue Ridge and the nearby rivers Big Blue and Little Blue.
Then they named Raytown after William Ray, a blacksmith who set up shop on the Santa Fe Trail in 1848 then later the location of Rice-Tremonti, the oldest framed home in Jackson County.
But, before you start forwarding your mail, you’ll want a top-rated house inspection company in Raytown MO., so your new home doesn’t make you want to run for the hills.
December 23, 2025 — Full home inspection, termite inspection, and sewer scope on an occupied 73-year-old ranch-style home in the Military Heights subdivision of Raytown, MO.
In 2019, Bulldog Professional Inspection Services was anonymously chosen from a group of over 2,000 local businesses to achieve recognition as Kansas City’s only Top 25-Under-25 home inspection company.
This honor celebrates 25 small businesses with fewer than 25 employees who demonstrate strength, resilience, responsibility, and community commitment.
But being named one of Kansas City’s top small businesses isn’t just about a title – it’s about building trust and delivering dependable home inspections every day for years.
What does this mean for you as a local homebuyer or home seller?
It shows we’ve been vetted and verified based on our service, integrity, commitment, and expertise. And if the city trusts us, maybe you can, too.
We are small and quick, so when you reach out to Bulldog Professional Inspection Services, we can usually complete your property inspection within 24 to 48 hours.
And since we know how important reply time is when buying a house, you’ll also get your home inspection report later the very same day.
Whether you’re a first-time house buyer or a seasoned real estate investor, we’re here to assist you every part of the way.
Just call us, and we’ll handle the rest.
Sometimes, you need evidence that a specific something is the age someone says it is. That’s where data plate pictures enter into play.
We take a photo of the air conditioning data plate, heater data plate, and water heater data plate and include them in your building inspection report for you to keep.
This not only avoids age-related disputes by displaying the actual age of the equipment but also serves to confirm the details offered inside the seller’s disclosure. This way, you see for yourself if the disclosure information is accurate.
If you’re buying or selling a home in Raytown, you deserve the kind of home inspection that knows the sticking points you may face and includes this information in your report.
Skip the suspicion and doubt and keep negotiations running efficiently by calling Bulldog Inspections for your home inspection.
In 2008, we developed our MaxInspect™ home inspection process. A set of best practices improved to fix the most common problems homebuyers and real estate investors face with everyday home inspections:
“How did my home inspector miss this [fill in the blank]?”
Professional home inspections are as much skill as science. Perfecting the craft requires years of practice, which is why they are not made equal.
Here are the 3 parts to our MaxInspect™ Process:
A 100% Inspection
This may seem like an unexpected fact, but professional home inspectors are NOT required to check all the things in a home.
In reality, they only have to inspect a selected number of things. In the average-sized home, this usually amounts to roughly 400 things.
But Bulldog Professional Inspection Services inspects 100% of the things we can see, touch, and test during a home inspection.
This amounts to about 2,000 things and covers every outlet, switch, door, window, floor, wall, ceiling, tub, shower, faucet, toilet – and everything from the roof ridge to the sump pump.
But being hands-on also means we know HOW to test the things in your home that break, crack, click, buzz, arc, and leak because turning them on and off sometimes isn’t enough. Sometimes, the order of things reveals problems that less experienced home inspectors would have missed.
We do this to offer you a complete picture of what’s working and what’s not. Unlike some home inspection companies that rush through sections, our goal is to do it right the first time and give you the details you need to make informed decisions about your home.
So, whether you’re buying or selling your Raymore home, you’ll get a home inspection that prioritizes depth, accuracy, and clarity.
Mystery Glitch Technique
A mystery glitch is an electrical oddity that makes you scratch your head. For example, a switch in one room operates a fan in another, or a loose wall plug that turns on the ceiling fan when you use it.
We know homes well enough to find and uncover these pesky gremlins early, so you won’t be grumbling under your breath after you settle in.
Gravity Flow Process
Everybody knows gravity is a steady force that pulls us down and tries to grind us into dust.
But we use this to our advantage by allowing it to help us track and follow the problems caused by leaks and structural shifting.
Starting from the roof of the home, we move our way downward to the foundation. As we move along, we track the signs left behind until we find the source, it stops, or it disappears into a place we can’t reach.
Then we’ll inform you what’s happening, how concerned you should be, where we couldn’t find it, how far it went, whether we can observe damage to other areas, if there are signs of past repairs, and what we recommend.
All to show the full picture so you know what to expect.
Our promise: Get It Right The First Time.
So, when you contact Bulldog Professional Inspection Services, you’ll never have an amateur, trainee, or intern show up to your home inspection and greet you.
Steve Rodriguez is a Certified Master Inspector® who has been conducting top-rated home inspections on properties of all kinds, ages, situations, and conditions throughout the entire Kansas City area since 2003.
Over those years, he has discovered hundreds of thousands of issues and gained a sense of what to notice, where to check, and how to spot it so you won’t have irritating and bothersome malfunctions, defects, and failures after you move in.
Steve will personally examine your property, go over his findings using simple English methods you’ll understand, that will be based on actual practice, and guide you to decide what to do next.
Bulldog Professional Inspection Services has secured a spot among Kansas City’s top three home inspectors in 2024.
We achieved this through hard work, skill, and devotion to our community and our trade. With over 20 years of practice and more than 15,000 homes inspected, we don’t just find obvious problems—we apply our MaxInspect™ System to dig deep and uncover hidden issues that few can spot that might end up costing you later.
This is one way we get it right the first time.
We keep this up by delivering a simple, well-structured home inspection report by the end of the day that is full of detailed pictures so you can see the trouble for yourself.
Whether you’re a new homebuyer or a seasoned property investor, we can tailor our inspection services to meet your goals with either our full home inspection or our 5-point major-items inspection.
Because our mission is to take the stress and confusion out of the home inspection phase and give you the facts to decide and negotiate successfully.
Contact us today and find out for yourself why Bulldog Professional Inspection Services is consistently one of Kansas City’s top three home inspection companies near you.
When things in your home start to wear out or break, somebody has to fix them, so why not you?
That’s why we offer the Home Maintenance for Dummies [2nd Ed.] ebook free with every home inspection.
This easy-to-follow 411-page ebook simplifies everyday home maintenance and repairs by showing you how to inspect and fix things in every part of a house.
From loose toilets to leaking faucets, and broken pipes to roof repairs, this guide breaks down tasks into clear, easy-to-follow language that anyone can understand, no matter your skill level.
And keeping things simple is what we do best.
This is the perfect companion to not only boost your confidence by seeming competent in front of your spouse, it will save you some serious cash on many repairs.
Contact Bulldog Professional Inspection Services for your home inspection to get your hands on this helpful homeowner reference right away!
When it involves the bargaining power you deserve from a house inspection, nothing is more crucial to a successful outcome than your house inspection report.
This is the tool you rely on to negotiate, the document that sheds a serious light on your property, the one and only thing you take with you when the inspection is finished, and what your partner will turn to in order to create that to-do list (don’t say we didn’t give you a heads up).
That’s why we’ve updated that outdated and neglected industry relic of a report into a tool that not only delivers the most details with the smallest amount of risk; it helps you glide through your deal like you own the place by helping you get maximum price reductions, repairs, and concessions.
Here’s the way we get it done right the first time…
1) We craft reports using an inverted pyramid writing style.
A what?
Simply put, when you’re going through one of our sections, you won’t ever have to dig through a lengthy line of sentences that seem to drag on with unconnected ideas and separate thoughts until you finally get to the point.
An inverted pyramid writing style lays out the most important facts right away and builds the remainder of the story from there.
We will always go directly to the point in the very first sentence.
2) Our 10key™ comment method answers the 11 most key questions every house inspection report should cover if you want to fully grasp the issue in question.
In Kansas and Missouri, property inspections can seem like you’re back in the Wild West—you only discover what type you’re hiring once you’ve chosen them.
That’s why some house inspection reports create more confusion than answers and force you to take the time out to contact the yahoo inspector and ask them what they’re talking about.
But not us. We don’t just understand how to dig deep and uncover the real problems, but we also understand how to explain them in the clearest way possible so you actually see what’s going on with your new property.
What did I find?
Where is it?
What does it mean?
What will happen if it’s left unchecked?
Any signs of old fixes?
Is this a major problem?
Has it affected anything else?
Has it hurt any surrounding areas?
What do I suggest?
What caused it?
Any signs of old issues?
These are the 11 points every report must address if you expect to understand the full effect each defect has on the property.
3) Our reports are crafted in easy English.
Imagine we don’t know each other.
You could be a seasoned contractor or a nanny. A stay-at-home grandmother or car salesman.
It makes no difference because we craft our reports so anyone can get them no matter who you are, what you know, or what you do.
In fact, when I create a report, I picture my 70-year-old hippie mom from California reading it. And I’m pretty sure if she can understand it, anyone can (love you, Mom!).
4) Your house inspection report will be clear and easy to follow.
A report filled with things that aren’t important makes it hard and confusing to understand.
We don’t add anything unnecessary in your house inspection report that will confuse you from the things that really matter—the facts that you care about.
So, if it touches five or six different sets of hands before you close on your property, it’ll always be simple for each of them to understand and use.
5) Your property inspection report will be packed with enhanced photos.
Your report will include well-marked color photos that show all important defects. The photos grow in size when opened from your desktop computer to let you see the condition for yourself.
6) It will always be delivered on the same day.
Time is key when you’re facing a 3, 5, 7, or 10-day inspection period. This is particularly true when you have to have time to go through the report and arrange other inspections next.
That’s why you can count on getting your house inspection report on the same day.
More than half of the toilets are loose in the average home.
For this reason, along with checking the bathtub and shower enclosures, we nudge each toilet side-to-side and front-to-back.
Because one direction isn’t enough to uncover a wobbly and leaking toilet that could damage your flooring, bolts, and wax ring.
And we would hate for you to find that on your own once you’re settled.
Here’s an uncomfortable truth: Home inspectors don’t have to remove the main electrical panel cover.
But we do it anyhow because that buzzing box of high-voltage tends to cause more “DIY disasters” than almost any other part of the house. Double-tapped breakers, missing premises, careless wiring, loose connections, rust– if something can go wrong, it likely will inside that panel.
When we examine your electrical panel, we don’t cut corners. If we can access it securely, we constantly remove the panel cover and inspect the wires, breakers, and connections inside.
That’s the extra effort that saves you from nasty surprises after you’ve moved in. It’s also the reason why our customers trust us.
With Bulldog in your corner, you’ll never have to question what’s hiding behind that metal cover.
You’ll have an experienced Certified Master Inspector® on your side (15000 home inspections since 2003)
We are a veteran-owned business (Steve spent 10 honorable years in the US Navy)
We inspect 100% of the items we can see, touch, and test (about 2000 items in the average home)
We are the original 5-point major-items inspection (Since 2005)
We sell a 30 min. DIY home inspection checklist (just $18.99)
Your report will always be delivered the same day (so there are no delays)
We walk on the roof (if it’s accessible and it’s safe)
Free ebook – Ultimate Building Materials Lifespan Guide (over 300+ items)
Free ebook – Ultimate Building Materials Cost Estimates Guide (550+ items)
We run the water the entire inspection when the home is vacant (to find all the leaks)
We hang ID tags on all major shutoff valves (so you know where they are)
We were voted Kansas City’s Best Home Inspector (2022-2024)
We’re on Expertise.com’s list of Kansas City’s Best Home Inspectors (2016-2024)
We maintain a 4.9 Google rating (with nearly 600 reviews)
We encourage you to attend (It’s the best way to really understand the information)
We’ve never tried to be the biggest, just the best (we’ll inspect it right the first time)
We explain findings in plain English (to help you understand what went wrong and if you should be concerned)
We don’t make repairs (so there will never be a conflict of interest)
We push on the tiles inside tubs and showers (to find water-damaged drywall or plaster underneath)
We inspect homes from top to bottom (literally)
We turn on all lights and appliances before we trip GFCI outlets (to avoid mystery glitches)
We follow up after the inspection (to make sure you got your report and answer questions)
If you change your mind about the home, there is no charge (at the start of the inspection)
If the home isn’t ready when we arrive, we will reschedule (without charging you a fee)
We are a member of the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors® (since 2004)
We give away free home inspections (This is a $770 value and includes a free whole house inspection, radon test, and sewer scope inspection. Check out our Upreach Program.)
You get a free termite inspection with every full home inspection (An $85 value)
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